“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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I wrote what I believe is an amazing and wonderfully motivating book. It’s titled 365.2 and it chronicles the time (in 2022) when I ran every single day – for an entire year.
Continue reading “Bid Me Run…”
I am very happy to announce that FROM COMPTON TO THE BRONX, Roy White’s autobiography (that I wrote with him) was just listed as one of the BEST BASEBALL BOOKS of 2023 in Sports Collector’s Digest.
Continue reading “A Best Baseball Book of 2023!”
I ran my first New York City Marathon in 2002. That seems like a long time ago. In subsequent years (2003, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021, and 2022) I also ran New York City. It is a race and experience like none other. It’s a race that touches my heart and my soul in many ways. I love the big city; always have. And I love running through it. I love the New York City Marathon.
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The following is the sermon I delivered at the start of the 2023 New York City Marathon.
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One of my favorite passages in the Bible comes from Hebrews. Most runners are familiar with the passage as it reads:
“Let us run with perseverance, the race set before us.”
That, of course, is what we are here to do today. We are here to run, with purpose, and strength, using all our abilities and courage and confidence, that race, a big and mighty race, set before us.
Continue reading “Bringing God Into Our Running Lives”
I am a marathoner.
In less then three weeks, I’ll be running the New York City Marathon. This will be my 25th lifetime Marathon and my 10th New York.
I have always said that I will run forever.
Nothing has ever stopped me before. A torn Achilles? Nope. Stress factures? Nope. Other aches and pains and the like? Nope.
I just kept moving forward. (I did have surgery to repair the Achilles, but got right back at it afterword.)
Nothing ever stopped me… except… me.
Nothing ever stopped me, until I did. Or, better said, until I almost did.
Continue reading “Reaching, Failing, Reaching Again”
A New Jersey magazine, Autumn Years, featured a nice article on me for their Fall 2023 issue.
You can read that article on-line here or click the link below.
https://digitaledition.pub/wc/autumn-years/autumn-years/fall-2023/
The article begins on page 44.
ENJOY!
There was this idea trending a few weeks ago that men think about the Roman Empire on a daily basis. Many found this to be an amazing thing. Many wondered, aloud, “What could these men possibly be thinking about related to the Roman Empire? Why would people think about the Roman Empire today?”
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When you write your own stories, you get to tell the stories the way you want them to be told.
And, because this is my site, and my story, I’ll tell the story the way I would like it to be remembered. (But, because I always strive to be accurate and fair, I will tell the whole story… it’ll just be shared the way I want it told.)
Continue reading “The End(y) Was Just The Beginning”
Sometimes training for a marathon can be a drag. It’s challenging and often difficult to begin one’s day knowing that a long run is coming – an hour (often more) of strenuous exercise, out there on the streets alone, often hurting, sometimes painfully so. Marathon training is certainly not fun.
And yet, we go on day-after-day, year-after-year preparing for race-after-race, thinking, hoping , wondering, even decades removed from one’s prime, if this race, the next race, will be the best one ever. (“I wonder if I can set a P.R.?”)
Continue reading “Making Work Into Fun”
